One thing I like about the Minoans is that their art shows them to be a happy, vibrant people. If I could go back in time, I'd want to visit that civilization - and I'd love to see the sport of bull-leaping. - - - Minoan fresco. - what a beautiful, tender, image.

Marble funerary altar with portrait busts of a man and a woman. The inscription under the niche provides the identity of the two busts: Dis Manibus / L(uci) Caltili Stephani / Caltiliae Moschidis, meaning “To the souls of the deceased, of Lucius Caltilius Stephanus and Caltilia Moschis”.Most of the man’s face is ruined, while the portrait of the woman is missing only the tip of the nose. The woman’s hairstyle corresponds to the fashion of the ladies from ...

Portrait bust of Julia Victorina wearing a lunar symbol on the front of her marble funerary altar; in back she wears a radiate solar crown; on either side is carved a flowering tree (left, right). The inscription gives her age as 10. CIL 6.20727. End 1st century CE. Paris, Louvre.